Browsing English by Author "Lanning, Katie"
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Contradictions in Cavendish: An exploration of gender obstacles in "Of the Style of this Book"
Hemberger, Kaitlyn; Smith, Journey; Hall, Kyle; Porter, Jaryd (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Throughout the seventeenth century, Lady Margaret Cavendish published extensively across literary categories in a print culture controlled and dominated by men. This research explores what would regularly be an act of ... -
From the eyes of monsters: Literary transformative monsters as agents of empathy
Overman, Blake A. (Wichita State University, 2022-05)Literary monsters, the embodiments of human fear and anxiety, have existed in narratives for as long as stories have been told. Traditionally the monster is an antagonistic force, but what happens when the audience begins ... -
"I Don't Trust Anyone Without a Darkside": Analysis of Captain America's mental illness through the comics
Dudeck, Kalie (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Superheroes have been and still are popular sources of entertainment, making many of the heroes well-known in the public eye. One of the most popular of these heroes comes from the Marvel universe: Captain America. With ... -
Local attention: Melbourne on the map in Fergus Hume’s "Mystery of a Hansom Cab"
Lanning, Katie (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021-11-27)Contrary to Machalias’s and Kipperman’s depictions of the novel as stuck in a colonial outpost, Hansom Cab presents a Melbourne that is mappable, traversable, and modern. The mysteries that populate Hume’s novel are driven ... -
Scanner darkly: unpopularization in the Burney Newspaper Collection
Lanning, Katie (Routledge, 2021-01-18)This essay explores the paradox of inaccessibility in popular archives. Often understood as democratizing, even digital databases of popular literature ironically contain a series of barriers: an extraordinary paywall and ... -
The mirror the West built: An Orientalist reflection on Ingres's Grande Odalisque
Porter, Jaryd (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Early Orientalism was a tool to subjugate and categorize cultures and peoples with which Western scholars were only remotely familiar. The practice of fetishizing Eastern cultures began as a means of justifying conquest ...